Emily Harmon,
Mezzo-Soprano
ANNOUNCEMENTS
AUGUST 2023:
Emily will make her Virginia Opera debut as Berta in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia.
MARCH 2023:
Emily will be a Young Artist with the Glimmerglass Festival for the 2023 season.
FEBRUARY 2022:
Emily has been named a Semifinalist in the 2022 Annapolis Opera Vocal Competition.
AUGUST 2021:
Emily is a finalist for the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden.
UPCOMING EVENTS
September 2023
James Arnold Mansion Opera & Dinner Gala (soloist)
New Bedford, MA
November 2023
Il barbiere di Siviglia (Berta)
Norfolk, Fairfax, and Richmond, VA
RECENT EVENTS
March 26, 2023
A Night of Concert Arias
Performing Bon Appetit! by Lee Hoiby with the words of Julia Child
Opera del West
Natick, MA
May 20, 2023
Stars & Stripes: A Musical Salute
Seaglass Theater Company
Fairhaven, MA
November-December 2022
Irving Berlin's White Christmas (Mrs. Snoring Man/Tessie/Ethel/Seamstress)
New Bedford Festival Theatre
Zeiterion Performing Arts Center, New Bedford, MA
F E A T U R E D R E V I E W S
The Scarlet Ibis:
“Emily Harmon also provided a wonderful voice to Brother’s superstitious Aunt: her tone color was perfect for the whole role, whether it be for her full hopeful use of the upper register, or the deep sounds of her low register for the more ominous parts of the role.”
-Schmopera
"As the boys’ pious aunt, mezzo soprano Emily Harmon delivered several comic lines with sharp timing that briefly eased the tension. Yet her trancelike prediction of Doodle surviving through infancy and her other foreshadowing statements left their mark at key points throughout the opera."
-Boston Classical Review
The Dangerous Liaisons:
“Emily Harmon's seductive, duplicitous Merteuil delivered the most rewarding performance; she shaped her recitative phrases with authority and displayed good comic timing.”
-The Boston Musical Intelligencer
The Marriage of Figaro:
“Emily Harmon... ended up stealing the show with a Marcellina that starts off rather ridiculous but ends up being the rational core of the show in a strange way.”
-Schmopera
The Beautiful Bridegroom:
“Emily Harmon as the matchmaker Madame Kirsten, possessed a smooth vocal quality perfectly suited to her conniving character.”
-The Theatre Times
Hyacinth Curl World Premiere:
“The world premiere of ‘Hyacinth Curl’ was exceptionally transporting. The voices of [Adrienne] Arditti and mezzo-soprano Emily Harmon swooned in the sinuous but sparse lines of a Sufi devotional poem, overlapping and swelling into rapturous harmony before joining at last in unison. Occasional arresting peals from the singers’ handbells provided the only accompaniment.”
-The Boston Globe
“Arditti and Emily Harmon (another guest joining Hub [New Music] for this concert) blended beautifully, achieving a restrained but effective aesthetic seduction.”
-The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Dark Sisters:
"Emily Harmon carried most of the opera’s dramatic pull in the tragic role of Ruth. The death of Ruth’s two children as well as her role in driving Eliza from the faith gnawed at her conscience until her death. Harmon’s mellow voice lent tenderness to the anguished phrases of the guilt-plagued victim."
-Vent Wing (formerly Examiner.com)
Candide (The Glimmerglass Festival):
"I do need to give a shout-out to [Emily Harmon and Amanda Sheriff,] the two uncredited but massively scene-stealing performers who played the sheep."
-Bachtrack.com
N E W S
August 2023
This November, Emily will make her debut with Virginia Opera as Berta in Il barbiere di Siviglia.
March 2023
Emily will be a Young Artist with the Glimmerglass Festival for the 2023 summer season.
February 2022
Emily is a semifinalist in the Annapolis Opera Vocal Competition.
August 2021
Emily is a finalist for the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden.
April 2021
Emily is a Tier I semifinalist in the 2021 James Toland Vocal Arts Competition.
November 2020
Emily has won Third Place in the 10th Annual Mildred Miller International Voice Competition.
October 2020
Emily is a finalist in the 2020 Mildred Miller International Voice Competition and will be featured in the virtual Finals Concert on November 6, 2020.
September 2020
Emily will appear in Bewitched, a virtual Halloween concert, with Seaglass Theater Company on October 30, 2020 at 6 PM.
June 2020
Emily is joining the roster of Opera on Tap (Boston) and appear in their virtual 2020-21 season.
June 2020
Emily will appear in Music and Martinis, a virtual summer variety show with Seaglass Theater Company, and will perform an assortment of arias, musical theatre songs, and folk music.
March 2020
All engagements, including Sweeney Todd with Lowell House Opera, have been canceled due to COVID-19 restrictions. Future performances are TBD and will be updated in the coming weeks and months.
November 2019
Emily will make her role debut as Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street with Lowell House Opera in the spring of 2020.
October 2019
Emily will return to Boston Opera Collaborative in February 2020, singing Marcellina in Le nozze di Figaro.
December 2018
Emily will join Central City Opera as a Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Apprentice Artist for their Summer 2019 season, where she will cover Suzuki in Madama Butterfly.